Just had a quick look at the screenshots on the KDE home page. The
programme I am talking about is the KDE Control Centre. It can be launched
from the panel or from the "K" button. Once it is started you should be
able to find teh section I was telling you about (Login Manager). THe name
might not be the same but it is self-explanatory. Unless you are logged in
as root, it will not give you access.
Hope this helps.
Aaron
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Murray Strome [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 1999 10:07
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: Aaron deRozario
> Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE Messed up
>
> Hi -- thanks for trying to help. I cannot find any configuration program
> which
> has a LOGIN Manager associated with it. I looked through all the items in
> the
> list -- found some things which said configuration, but none seemed to
> have a
> configuration manager. If I try to start gnome from anywhere, I get a
> message
> which says "Gnome segmentation fault, report bug to development team".
>
> Next time you at your LINUX machine, perhaps you could take a look and
> help me
> find the item. Thanks.
>
> Murray Strome
> Aaron deRozario wrote:
>
> > I know I had a similar problem after a bad unmount problem. The
> Mandrake
> > login screen disappeared and was replaced with the standard KDE login
> screen
> > and no Shutdown button. I stumbled upon the solution by accident.
> >
> > If you log in as root and start up the KDE configuration program (sorry
> I
> > can't remember the name - I am at work on Windows - it is the program
> you
> > use to change backgrounds etc and has a button on the panel). In there
> you
> > will find the LOGIN manager. Under teh login amanager you will find a
> whole
> > heap of things you can configure. You will find a section on Shutdown
> > permissions (I think I used Shutdown for all) that put the Shutdown
> button
> > back on the login screen.
> >
> > There is also a section on sessions. Add a session called kde
> (otherwise
> > kde sort of disappears). You can also add WindowMaker. I did this
> creating
> > two possible sessions KDE and WindowMaker, however after a while
> (proabably
> > a restart) all the options miraculously returned (IceWM etc). I'm not
> > quite sure why that happened.
> >
> > There is also an option that gives an icon for various users. This was
> not
> > part of the default configuration for Mandrake, though it is for
> Caldera.
> > It does speed up login (not that typing your username is particularly
> slow).
> > There are a few other things you can configure as well (startup screen
> > wallpaper etc).
> >
> > Sorry I can't be more descriptive, as I said I'm at work and don't have
> a
> > linux box in front of me.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Aaron
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Murray Strome [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 1999 2:55
> > > To: LINUX Newbie
> > > Subject: [newbie] KDE Messed up
> > >
> > > Can anyone help me with this one?
> > >
> > >
> > > I am not sure what exactly caused it, but during a session, the system
> > > locked up and nothing
> > > could get it going except to restart it. After this, the initial box
> in
> > > KDE is messed up. Until this
> > > happened, that box gave me a pull down menu with several start-up
> > > possibilities (such as
> > > KDE, Gnome, Windowmaker and many others), and there was a button which
> > > allowed one to
> > > shutdown or restart the computer. It has been replaced with a similar
> box
> > > with a large "24" at
> > > the top, a pull down menu with only KDE and Failsafe options and no
> button
> > > for
> > > shutdown/restart.
> > >
> > > How can I recover the original box? During reboot, the only things
> which
> > > fail are the sound
> > > card item (which I still have not been able to resolve -- Acer FX-3D
> > > (1816)) and I get a
> > > message
> > >
> > > mountd: couldn't start /var/lib/nfs/xtab
> > >
> > > Also, during shutdown, I got a message saying it could not unmount NFS
> > > system. I don't
> > > know if these are related or not.
> > >
> > >
> > > Murray Strome
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